Ukrainian military, political and government leader. Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host, head of the Cossack State in the Right-bank Ukraine (1669–1674).

Member of the Khanenko Cossack family. - Since 1656, he was a colonel of Uman regiment, follower of pro-Poland position, supported Yuri Khmelnytsky and Pavlo Teteria. Khanenko’s signature is on the second Pereyaslav Articles of 1659.

- 1660: As Yuri Khmelnytsky’s acting hetman, Khanenko successfully countered the attack of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on the City of Mohyliv (on the Dnister River).

- 1661: he was present at Slobodyshche and was among the Cossack delegates who drew up the Treaty of Slobodyshche.

- 1668: Khanenko tried to remove Hetman Petro Doroshenko from power and replace him with Petro Sukhovii with support of some Cossacks, Khan of Crimea and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

- July 1669: Sukhovii was defeated in his stand-off against Doroshenko and his Cossacks of three Right-bank regiments (Uman, Pavoloch, Korsun) proclaimed Khanenko hetman at the council in Uman. Sukhovii became a general scribe at the new hetman’s office.

- October 29, 1669: Khanenko was defeated by Petro Doroshenko in the Battle of Stebliv.

- September 2, 1670: Khanenko reached the arrangement with delegates of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Ostroh, on the ground of which the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth recognised Khanenko as hetman of Right-bank Ukraine, while he pledged allegiance to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on terms of autonomy for the Cossack domain only.

- 1672: Khanenko and part of his family escaped to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, while almost all his supporters sided with Doroshenko and the Ottomans.

- In spring 1673, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth continued its battle for Right-bank Ukraine. Khanenko appeared there in April, and thousands of Cossacks sided with him again, dissatisfied with Doroshenko. However, on 11 September, 1673, Doroshenko defeated Khanenko at Kyiv Pechersk Monastery.

- In 1674, when Hetman Ivan Samoylovych’s troops crossed the Dnieper River and most of the Right-bank regiments sided with the Left-bank hetman, Khanenko gave up hetmanship and was granted land in Left-bank Ukraine.

Khanenko continued with his political activities. He settled in Kozelets, Chernihiv Region, and was accused of contacts with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as late as 1677–1678. Following orders from Moscow, Samoylovych kept him prisoner in Baturyn. Khanenko managed to prove his innocence and died soon after.